In fact, the first poem in his first book and the last poem of his final book are both about encounters with nature. Some say Frost was a common American writer who was in love with nature, such as James Fenimore Cooper. However, others say the woodsman he wrote about as “independent, defiant of urban artificially and at one with nature was one of his conceptions of himself.” His poems about nature portray many different themes. Frost used the woods as a place that could be used “for restoration of
This gives the impression that the stanza has just been forced and squeezed into the poem which represents the slums in India which are constantly under pressure. We also get this idea from the line “Someone has squeezed a living space”. Also with this form she is trying to show how things are not always as straightforward and as organised as people think. Furthermore there is some rhyming in the poem but the words which rhyme have a few lines in between them “That” and “flat”, “Beams” and “seams” and “Space” and “place”. This varying use of rhyme illustrates the poet’s ever
Explore the way writers use settings to present themes and ideas in the poems you have studied. In this essay I will be looking at the poems ‘London’ by William Blake and ‘A Vision’ by Simon Armitage. Both poets use a place for their setting, one an actual place; London, and the other based on a model for the future Huddersfield. Both poems are written in the first person, this helps the reader to visualise and understand the poet’s ideas and attitudes about the subject matter. Blake’s poem is set in 18th century London, where he writes about the things that he sees, hears and feels whilst out walking through the streets.
Charlie Stack Mrs. Polomeni English II 27 October 2011 “Fire & Ice” The poem “Fire and Ice” written by Robert Frost was first published in the 1920s. Robert Frost is considered the bard of New England. He wrote in great depth that appealed simple to readers, but there was deeper meaning if you looked closely. Although poetry has many different interpretations because it is structured on opinion not fact, the poem “Fire and Ice’’ may seem to come off as the geological hell of the world, but if you look closely it portrays the theme of hatred and desire. The poem has a rhyme scheme of A, B, A, A, B, C, B, C, B.
Shrouded Sorrow Robert Frost is known for writing about the beauty and majesty of New England. Although on first read this seems to be just another one of these simple poems, he actually uses breaks, cadence, figurative language, and a flexible persona in his poem “Never Again Would Birds’ Song be the Same” to deal with death and grief in his life. Without multiple stanza common to many poems, Frost had to rely on end-stops and enjambments to create meaning through breaks just as we must rely on them to interpret his meaning. More than half the poem uses enjambment; however, this brings emphasis to the end-stopped lines. Whenever Frost end-stops a line, the next seems to to take on a tone of mild opposition.
Likewise in Miguel Pinero’s poem, “Bury my Ashes on the Lower East Side”, Miguel Pinero expresses the streets through his eyes as well. For the most part both writers have experienced similar struggles in their lives in the streets of NYC; the “mean” streets of NYC. Growing up in NYC can be pretty rough, and to some the streets become their best friends and can be the only form of survival; sometimes the best friend can turn on you, become mean, and then they aren’t as beautiful as they first seemed. Piri Thomas struggled throughout his childhood. He grew up on the “mean streets” of Harlem.
One way in which Thomas seems inspired by the natural world is through his contrast between the simplistic beauty of nature “sky and meadow and forest”, “untouched dew”, “new mown hay”, and the impossible complexity of expressing this beauty in words “I cannot bite the day to the core”. He does this throughout the poem, asking himself a set of questions. The first is whether he should look outside this physical world ‘as far as heaven, as hell’ to find ‘Wisdom or strength to match this beauty’. Or should he follow a path of ‘pale dust pitted with small dark drops’ (a contrast with ‘sublime vacancy’ and an image suggesting rain) and listen to ‘short-lived happy-seeming things//That we know naught of, in the hazel copse?’ The idea of step-by-step quest seems to be at odds with the idea of poetic inspiration. ‘Wisdom’ and ‘strength’ are posed as alternatives, as are heaven and hell, and refer, presumably, to creative or spiritual abilities.
Anju Panth Psy370, Sec G Abstinence Project: Abstinence week one Monday, March 9, 2015: I woke up anxious today, I wasn’t sure why I was anxious but I think it because I had only like three hours of sleep. I checked my phone as I woke up and realized that I can’t check my emails like because I am in the abstinence week, and it got me more anxious. I decided to check my email twice everyday so that way I will not miss any important information and I won’t spend too much time on checking emails. I check my emails consciously around 10:00 am, I was actually happy to check my emails. I felt like now I am back in the loop that I was extracted from.
Reading the poems of both Wordsworth and Coleridge, one immediately notes a difference in the common surroundings presented by Wordsworth and the bizarre creations of Coleridge. Thus they develop their individual attitudes towards life. I will look at differences and similarities concerning people's relationship to nature in poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth such as: "The Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan", "The Nightingale," "Lucy", "Tintern Abbey," "There was a boy", " Old Beggar", "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Frost at Midnight". In "The Ancient Mariner," Coleridge demonstrates how violating nature and her subjects brings doom to the infracted. In this poem, the poet emphasises the vengeful, dark side of the land and the sea.
In the following essay I will explore in greater detail the emotions and romantic aspects of the poems, and the opinions of the writers and audiences. I am now going to analyse the poem “London” by William Blake, which was written in 1792: Blake suggests that London is very vast; additionally he infers that it is a controlled and dictated city. Furthermore, the poem implies that London is artificial and shows no representation of the natural world in its splendour. “I wander through each chartered street/ Near where the chartered Thames does flow” By using the verb “Wander”, Blake is implying that London is bewildering. This is because to “Wander” means to travel around with no particular destination or purpose, or to deviate.